Please know the following terms as we defined and discussed them in class. They will be important throughout the semester.

From Thursday, 4/2:

• Free Trade
• Fair Trade
• Informal Economy
• Flexible Labor
• Precarious Employment

Notes from class discussion on Davis’s Planet of Slums can be found here: Davis Notes

 

Before Midterm:

From Thursday, 1/22:

• Culture
• Cultural Studies
• Text
• Agency
• Ideology
• Hegemony

From Tuesday, 2/3

• Enculturation
• Globalization
  • Economic, Political, and Cultural
• Eurocentrism
• Polycentrism
• Contingency, Conjuncture, (Historical) Accident

From Tuesday, 2/10

• Gap
• Third World
• Nation and Nationalism
• Orient and Orientalism
• Dialectic

From Tuesday, 2/17 and Thursday, 2/19

• McDonaldization and its 4 Dimensions
• glocalization and grobalization
• Imagined World and the 5 Scapes
• Global Media System
• Neoliberalism
• Neoimperalism

From Tuesday, 2/24

• Accumulation by Dispossession
• Privatization, Financialization, Management and Manipulation of Crises, and State Redistributions